I am the Eschaton. I am not your God. I am descended from you, and exist in your future. Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light co… - Charles Stross

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

His Infernal Majesty leans towards me confidingly. “You have imposter syndrome,” He says, “but paradoxically, that’s often a sign of competence. Only people who understand their work well enough to be intimidated by it can be terrified by their own ignorance. It’s the opposite of Dunning-Kruger syndrome, where the miserably incompetent think they’re on top of the job because they don’t understand it.”

Mo used to be a troubleshooter: whenever the organization had a spot of trouble she shot it until it stopped twitching.